{"id":38618,"date":"2010-09-17T22:52:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T03:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=38618"},"modified":"2010-09-20T16:05:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T21:05:57","slug":"indian-conglomerate-makes-bid-for-mgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/09\/17\/38618-indian-conglomerate-makes-bid-for-mgm\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Conglomerate Makes Bid for MGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Thanks to Ringer Kookie for this heads up from the NY Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sahara India Pariwar, an Indian conglomerate with real estate and media holdings, says it has made a $2 billion bid to buy the debt of the struggling Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was unclear how MGM\u2019s committee of creditors viewed the offer. A spokeswoman for the studio declined to comment. The offer came a day after MGM said it had received another extension on an agreement to put off interest payments on about $4 billion in debt until Oct. 29.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/18\/business\/global\/18bizbriefs-INDIANCONGLO_BRF.html?_r=1&amp;src=busln\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Ringer Kookie for this heads up from the NY Times: Sahara India Pariwar, an Indian conglomerate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,495,334,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie","category-miscellaneous","category-hobbit-rumors","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-a2S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}